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Originally posted by valkyrie
This is not directed at anyone here, but in general, I have never understood how it is anything but hypocritical for practicing Christians to have premarital sex and act like it's okay and not a violation of Christian teachings and morals.
I think 90% of the Christians I've ever encountered pick and choose what rules they want to follow, and I don't get that.
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I wanted to say this, but like honeychile said, I didn't want to come off as judgmental. I've gone to my church for about 8 years, and have grown up around a bunch of those kids (even though i rarely talk to them). I decided to join one of the college youth groups that the church has and found myself surrounded by the kids I grew up with. Well, we went to Applebees one day and everyone just started talking about different things, and the subject of sex came up. I was surprised that 90% of the people (even the pastor's daughter---i suppose) were sexually active. I hate to admit it, but it did change the attitude I had of them...not necessarily in a bad way, but I pretty much thought the same thing that Valkyrie wrote. If your a "Christian" and try to live in a Godly way, how could u go off and freely talk about ur sexual escapades and think its ok? Especially since I'm a new person, maybe they thought I was sexually active as well?!
I also believe that if you don't really need to find a specific religion (I.E. Catholicism, Evangelism, Presbyterianism, Mormonism, Lutheranism, etc). As long as you have God in your heart, believe that Jesus is his son who came down to earth and died for our sins....and just try to live a Godly way (and not just by doing good deeds, but trying to live the way God says through his Word--the bible) then your all good. I dont think you necessarily have to go to a specific "church."